Clemence Poesy Quotes
I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I'm not super into sports.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.
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I have no inner monologue.
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When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.
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I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician.
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Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
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I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.